Heartwood Tree Care

Cert 3 gets you up the tree. Cert 5 tells you whether it should be coming down at all. Paz Cooper, who owns and runs Heartwood Tree Care, holds both, so he can assess a tree for disease, decay and structural faults, tell you what it actually needs, and then go and do the work himself. He has also taught at NMIT and Melbourne Polytechnic, training other people to become arborists. He prices every job himself and is on site with his crew to complete it.

We are a small, specialist tree company working the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The crew hold accreditation in training and assessing (Cert 3 TAE), rope access technical skills and other trade qualifications, and some have come through commercial work across Melbourne including premier parks and gardens. Your property is covered by our $20 million public liability insurance, and the price we quote is the price, with nothing added afterwards.

Tree pruning is carried out to Australian Standards and takes in weight reductions, canopy reductions, service wire clearance, property clearance, retrenchment pruning and hedge trimming. For tree removal the range runs from a small backyard tree up to large crane dismantles, and where one has to go we will talk you through a suitable replacement to put in its place.

A structural fault does not always mean a tree has to come out. Where there is a weak union or a split, cable and bracing, or bolting, can hold it together and keep the tree for the long term. Our consultation and advice work uses both ground and aerial inspections, since the things that matter on a tree are often out of sight from the ground.

Commercial tree work covers businesses, educational institutions and government departments with large grounds and a lot of trees, where safety, risk and compliance all have to stack up. We also run 24/7 emergency tree work across Melbourne's north and east for storms, high winds and trees that fail without warning. If a limb has come down or a tree has gone over, ring straight away rather than waiting for the morning.

From St Andrews, just past Eltham and Hurstbridge, we work mainly across the Nillumbik, Banyule, Darebin and Yarra council areas, which takes in Warrandyte, Templestowe, Kangaroo Ground, Greensborough, Montmorency, Research, Diamond Creek, Fairfield, Northcote, Thornbury, Preston, Brunswick, Fitzroy, Carlton, Ivanhoe, Heidelberg, Rosanna, Balwyn and Blackburn. Quotes are free, so ring 0435 850 010 and Paz will arrange a time to come and look at the tree. If your suburb is not on that list, ask anyway.